Durch die Nacht

Karl Meyer, a dentist, is still reeling from the death of his eighteen-year-old son Ole-Jakob, who died in what looked like a drunk, deliberate collision with a truck. The loss exposes the cracks already running through Karl's marriage, including an affair with a younger woman that strained his family before his son's death.

Seeking some form of absolution, Karl travels to Slovakia to a house where visitors are made to confront their deepest fears — a place people are said to leave either broken or healed. Stig Sæterbakken wrote "Gjennom natten" in the aftermath of his own son's suicide and took his own life months after its publication; the German translation by Karl-Ludwig Wetzig appeared eight years later. A raw, unflinching account of grief, infidelity, and the limits of self-forgiveness.